A5017329210- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Speech and dialogue systems
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Global Health and Surgery
- Social Media and Politics
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Language and cultural evolution
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Linguistics and language evolution
Australian National University
1987-2021
The University of Adelaide
2021
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1987-2018
Boise State University
2018
SRI International
2014
University of California, San Francisco
2014
Nuance Communications (Austria)
2014
VA Northern California Health Care System
2004-2010
The University of Sydney
2007-2010
Arizona State University
2009
This article tests earlier claims about the universality of patterns polysemy and semantic extension in domain perception verbs. Utilizing data from a broad range (approx. 60) Australian languages, we address two hypothesized universals. The first is Viberg's (1984) proposed unidirectional pattern higher to lower sensory modalities (i.e. INTRAFIELD extensions, like 'see' > 'hear'). second universal that put forward by Sweetser (1990) regarding verbs cognition readings TRANSFIELD 'know'). She...
Category and letter fluency tasks have been used to demonstrate psychological neurological dissociations between semantic phonological aspects of word retrieval. Some previous neuroimaging lesion studies suggested that category (semantic-based retrieval) is mediated primarily by temporal cortex, while (letter-based frontal cortex. Other both are We tested these hypotheses using voxel-based symptom mapping (VLSM) in a group 48 left-hemisphere stroke patients. VLSM maps revealed deficits...
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages.In the analysis, we focus on ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames reference.Running nonlinguistic experiments subjects from these language communities, find that population's cognitive frame reference correlates with within same referential domain.*INTRODUCTION.This...
Semantic dementia (SD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by atrophy of anterior temporal regions and progressive loss semantic memory. SD patients often present with surface dyslexia, relatively selective impairment in reading low-frequency words exceptional or atypical spelling-to-sound correspondences. Exception are typically 'over-regularized' pronounced as they spelled (e.g. 'sew' 'sue'). This suggests that the absence sufficient item-specific knowledge, exception read relying...
William Jarrold, Bart Peintner, David Wilkins, Dimitra Vergryi, Colleen Richey, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Jennifer Ogar. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Reality. 2014.
Australia is home to Indigenous sign languages of varying degrees complexity. In this paper we describe some the features language(s) used in Arandic speaking communities Central Australia. These have been referred as 'alternate' because they are semiotic systems that not usually primary mode communication a community, but rather form alongside other systems, including speech and drawing practices. We give examples use different contexts—both with without co-occurring speech. draw attention...
The purpose of this paper is to question some the basic assumpiions concerning motion verbs.In particular, it examines assumption that "come" and "go" are lexical universals which manifest a universal deictic Opposition.Against background offive working hypotheses about nature 'come" ''go", study presents comparative investigation t wo unrelated languages-Mparntwe Arrernte (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) Longgu (Oceanic, Austronesian).Although pragmatic "suppositional" complexity of"come"...
This study investigates whether sentence comprehension and nonsyntactic verbal working memory (vWM) are sustained by the same or different neural systems. Scores in a sentence–picture matching task digits backward (DB) were correlated with magnetic resonance imaging voxelwise gray matter volumes using voxel-based morphometry 58 patients neurodegenerative diseases. Results showed that overall scores, regardless of grammatical structure, left temporoparietal region, whereas DB scores...